So after the hype at the start of this week, where Rangers fans were under the impression that potentially three players could still be arriving at the end of the week through the Marble Staircase, we only seem to have one at this point. Max Aarons is the only one thus far to have put pen to paper, and that was only a loan.

Aside Dundee’s Lyle Cameron, of course, who is now Rangers’ Lyle Cameron, Rangers haven’t added anybody else and lag behind the rest of the Scottish Premiership for incomings this current pre-season window.

The two other big names that were on the agenda regarding this week were Leicester City’s Conor Coady and Peterborough’s Kwame Poku. We now know that Poku almost certainly is not coming to Rangers but QPR instead, while Coady remains a bit of an unknown quantity at this point.

The week isn’t over yet, but many fans are reacting with a bit of disappointment that on this Friday at half past five at the present time of writing, there are no signs of any announcements by the club. Pre-season is well and truly underway now. The qualifiers for the Champions League aren’t far behind, and Rangers aren’t anywhere near ready for this.

All other clubs in Scotland have made more signings than we have, and we’re the one that needed to make them the most. While fans are still trying to back what they see, there are a few murmurs of mild discontent at the lack of incomings at this point, and it’s not hard to understand that.

Yes, it may be that Aarons is a good addition, and Cameron could well thrive, but they aren’t going to win 56 for us, not alone. We need more, clearly. And in all fairness, we admit that Russell Martin generally isn’t the most attractive manager for players to arrive for, unless they have a personal connection.

Indeed, that was allegedly the case with Aarons, who supposedly came through the youth ranks at Norwich, where Martin was coach at the time, and this was made a big deal of by the manager who made reference to it.

Nevertheless, this is getting away from the point, which is that on June 27th, with the window having been open for quite a while now, we’ve only made one fresh signing. With pre-season underway, this is when the players need to come in to get used to the new environment, the new team, the new club, the new manager.

Unfortunately, the closer we get to the qualifiers, the less time we have to achieve that, to bed these players in. And every season, in all fairness, we appear to have the same problem.

Now, in its defence, our rivals over the City Celtic have also only made, at the time of last checking, around about two signings. And in all fairness as well, there was an article telling about all clubs in the Premiership how many signings they’d made at that time.

We were at one, they were at two, so they weren’t a million miles ahead of us in that sense. However, they are unfortunately a million miles ahead of us by default, we’re the ones doing catch-up.

So, either way, Rangers need to get players in, and there is definitely disappointment that as yet, this week, there’s been just the one. We do hope for more.